Generational Dynamics World View News

[John]

** 07-Apr-2019 Cover name in white

> I'd put your name in white.

I tried white. It seems to work.

[John]

** 07-Apr-2019 Wiping Huawei routers

> I do have to wonder where the "software" is located (on board the
> boards/silicon) if it's not powered up to some minimal extent?

> Wouldn't the testers abjectly depower suspected hardware to "wipe"
> any non-hardware software from the system?

I'm assuming that Huawei would sell thousands of routers to some
country or some company, all of them with backdoors that could be
activated by China's military at any time of its choosing (as long as
they're powered up). If any part of the software were "wiped," then
the router wouldn't work at all, and you'd have to throw out all
thousands of routers and buy new ones from someone else.

[Guest]

** 07-Apr-2019 Cover name in white

> I'd put your name in white.

I tried white. It seems to work.

It works.

[John]

** 07-Apr-2019 GD Man comic book

> Ah come-ahhhhhhhhhhhhn...! Do the comic book thing! Make it a
> franchise,.. with GD Man, and Living Memory Boy, as they (and the
> rest of the Super Anti-Genocide Pre-Regeneration Squad) battle the
> evil forces of CH86 and his Wrathful Whippersnappers across the
> globe and cyberspace!

> I wannit, I wannit, I wannit, I wannit, I wannit, I wannit,... I
> wannit SOON...!!

> Give it to me, or I will whine,.. incessantly,.. for more than a
> half an hour.

You're a man of many, many talents. How about if you create the first
GD Man comic book?

[John]

** 07-Apr-2019 Book corrections

> 10.2 The second incident that occurred around that time was
> perhaps even more serfious. On December 26,
> 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed, and all the former Soviet
> republics became independent self-governing nations.

> 10.2 Suddenly, the leadership of the CCP were staring death in the
> face, as they considered the fact something like
> that Tiananmen Square protests could force the Chinese
> Communist Party to collapse as well.

> ..the fact THAT something like
> THE Tiananmen Square protests could
> force...

> 26.13. Sun Yat-Sen and the Republican Revolution (1911),
> paragraph 2

> Current: ... 1989 in China's Tiananmen Square was crushed by a
> huge massacre of thousands of student protesters, resulting in a
> bloodath, establishing ...

> Correction: bloodbath

> 27.2. Sun Yat-Sen versus Yuan Shikai, paragraph 5

> Current: What happens in country after country after a civil war
> is that whoever becomes leader after the civil war refuses to give
> up power, often resorting to mass slaughter, rape, torture,
> mass jailings mutilations ....

> Correction: jailings, mutilations

> 27.2. Sun Yat-Sen versus Yuan Shikai, paragraph 8

> Current: ... Following Yuan's death, there was a 12-year known as
> the warlord era, ...

> Correction: 12-year period ? 12-year time ?

> 27.5 Twenty-One Demands - May 9, 1915 - China's National
> Humiliation Day, paragraph 2

> Current: ... Meiji Restoration to grow into a major international
> economic and military power, on a par with some of the
> European powers ...

> Correction: remove 'a', [don't think it's required]

> 29.4 Details of the Versailles betrayal and return of Shandong,
> paragraph 7

> Current: Every since the 1915 Twenty-One ...

> Correction: Ever

> 29.5 Bolshevik government renounces privileges and interests in
> China, paragraph 1

> Current: ... This was the first step in the gradual rescinding of
> the Capitulations; the last of them went only in 1943, as a
> consequence of the difficult situation ofthe Europeans and
> Americans in ...

> Correction: of the

> 30.2 The rise of communism, paragraph 1

> Current: ... as a dictatorship of the proletariat seemed to be
> relevant only in a highly industrialized and not in an agragian
> society.

> Correction: in a highly industrialized society and not in an
> agragrian one.

Thanks for the corrections. They've all been fixed.

For those people who have read through the draft, what do you think of
the content?

[Guest]

So far so good. It's well written, but, to be honest, as a long time reader, the conclusion is not a shock. Still, highly informative. Good work, John.

And I'm still going to buy two copies when you publish it.

[Phong Tran]

Hi,

I'm new to the forum but have frequented your website for over 10 years now at least and bought your Iran book as well (though I haven't read it yet).

From reading the first draft of the book (up to 30.3), my initial assessment would be that it is well researched and well written. There are a few things that I would write differently and the style of writing isn't the same as mine so I try to ignore those as I recognize the right of the author to be able to convey their points and manner of thinking unique to themselves. The only real issue that slightly bothers me is the repetition of certain phrases and lines across the draft. I could probably point them out if I restarted from the beginning but I do recall seeing between 3-4 of them. There's nothing really wrong with repetition of points but usually they're to connect points across chapters or demonstrate congruity among comparison facts but some of the repetition occurs in the same chapter and can be read as propaganda-ish which I'm sure they are not meant to be. There's enough facts in the book that there's no need for the book to be perceived as such and would hate for it to be but in reading the repetition it can come across a bit (at least to me anyway).

Cheers,
Phong

[edit] Propaganda might not be the correct word. More persuasive-ish as if trying to convince the reader instead of laying out facts and letting the reader derive their own decision based on what they've read.

[Guest]

Can you request to have paper books (not e-books) sold when self publishing? That might make you a little more money. Or would that not matter?

[John]

** 07-Apr-2019 China vs America and Japan

> So far so good. It's well written, but, to be honest, as a long
> time reader, the conclusion is not a shock. Still, highly
> informative. Good work, John.

> And I'm still going to buy two copies when you publish it.

It's worth pointing out that I had a major change of views in
the last few months, doing research for this book.

China has obviously been preparing for war with the United States
for years, and I've always said that China is planning to
launch a war against the United States.

The change in view is that I now understand that China DOES NOT
WANT war with the United States. What they want is a revenge
war with Japan, and they know that this will lead to war with
the US, since the US will defend Japan.

Perhaps it's a distinction without a difference, because it all ends
up the same way.

[John]

** 07-Apr-2019 Vietnam

> Hi, I'm new to the forum but have frequented your website for over
> 10 years now at least and bought your Iran book as well (though I
> haven't read it yet).

> From reading the first draft of the book (up to 30.3), my initial
> assessment would be that it is well researched and well
> written. There are a few things that I would write differently and
> the style of writing isn't the same as mine so I try to ignore
> those as I recognize the right of the author to be able to convey
> their points and manner of thinking unique to themselves. The
> only real issue that slightly bothers me is the repetition of
> certain phrases and lines across the draft. I could probably
> point them out if I restarted from the beginning but I do recall
> seeing between 3-4 of them. There's nothing really wrong with
> repetition of points but usually they're to connect points across
> chapters or demonstrate congruity among comparison facts but some
> of the repetition occurs in the same chapter and can be read as
> propaganda-ish which I'm sure they are not meant to be. There's
> enough facts in the book that there's no need for the book to be
> perceived as such and would hate for it to be but in reading the
> repetition it can come across a bit (at least to me anyway).

> Cheers, Phong

> [edit] Propaganda might not be the correct word. More
> persuasive-ish as if trying to convince the reader instead of
> laying out facts and letting the reader derive their own decision
> based on what they've read.

What did you think of the history of Vietnam?